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THE DAILY JOURNAL. "WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1S87.

WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth SW P. S. Heath. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUKXAL Can be foand at the following places: LONDON Americaa Exchange ia. Europe, 449 fctricd. PARIS Americaa Exchange ia Paris, 35 Boulevard ties Capucines. (S'EW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotels. CIIICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. TLOCIS Union Xews Company, Union Depot and Southern 11 o tel. WASHINGTON. D. C.Riff House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 Editorial Rooms 242 GOVERNOR Gray's inaccuracy in regard to Jack Howard's shortage suggests that the figures which he quotes were furnished him .by the genial ex-warden himself. If candidate Edenharter could secure 500 votes as easily as he can work the "most popular dodge by buying 500 tickets at one ewoop he would probably rest easier o'nights , than he now does. A COMMITTEE of Democrats have Been to Chicago to invite the Iroquois and Calumet clubs of that city to participate in the President's reception here. We were tinder the impression this was to be a non-partisan reception. Allen O. Myers, late managing editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer and statesman at large, is reported to have joined the Union ' T.aV.m rrnrfr la. ihn TTnirm "Labor nartv a M. JJ L ru j " " " - . - . j "penal colony that it should accept such ad ditions? ' It wa3 quite natural and proper in a con test between Edenharter and Davy, the Labor candidate for Mayor, that Mr. Leon Bailey should buy enough tickets to put Sim Coy's candidate ahead. Bailey stands in with the gang under all cireumstancf s. The only plot that seems to be brewing in regard to the St. Louis encampment is one on the part of a few fool Democrats to get up a renetition of the Wheeling incident. The c good sense of the old soldiers will save them from being led into that trao again. The law of business is about to come in conflict with the law passed by the Legisla ture in New York. The Saturday half-holiday, although made legal throughout the year, is likely to be ignored by employers when the busy season opens, and if the clerks and work men object they will bo asked what they are going to do about it. THE next time Mrs. Cleveland is asked to take part in any festivities the "old man" will not be left out of the invitation. Frances says she will not present the flags to the New York firemen because hubby was snubbed, or words to that effect. As Mrs. Cleveland has no intention of running for office herself she fails to see the advantage of being more popular than the President. AN association has been formed in Washington of those Republicans who have lost their places since Cleveland was inaugurated. The best thing those Republicans can do is to leave Washington by the first train and join the productive forces of the country. In luo time they may have an opportunity to vote for a Republican President, a pleasure they can never enjoy if they remain in Washington. THE first official statement of the condition of the Fidelity Bank indicates that the creditors will receive about four and one-half cents on the dollar. The liabilities, direct and indirect, amount to $2, 202, 104. CO, while the assets are appraised at only $103,201.78. A careful investigation of the accounts and business methods of the bank shows they were desperate in the extreme, and in some cases clearly within the criminal provisions of the national bank law. A KEEPER at Sing Sing who has been interviewed by a wandering reporter expresses "himself as opposed to the admission of rich men to the penitentiary, on the ground that they make troublesome prisoners, by demanding extra attention. It is hardly worth while for the keepers to borrow trouble on this account. The indications, in the Sharp case, for instance, show the improbability of rich men obtaining entrance there. Men who have spent all their money may get into prison, but they can be treated just like ordinary convicts. A WAT back, when some of us were young, and "enthusiastic citizens who were going to pipe gas to Indianapolis by town meeting were indulging in blissful anticipations of swiftcoming business and real estate booms, Judge Martindale gave the public some timely advice, the substance of which was, "First catch your hare." ,,The Journal must respectfully suggest the same advice is equally applicable to the originators of the industrial parade project on the occasion of the arrival of gas. First get your gas to town, and the jubilee will take care of itself. About this time of the year look out for premonitory symptoms of school-book trouble, which in a few weeks will swell into a loud roar of protest. The able book agents and representatives of the different publishing houses have not been idle during the summer. The school vacationis their busy time. Then it is they quietly visit intelligent and publicspirited members of school boards and honest, guileless trustees, and demonstrate by the most convincing arguments that the schoolbooks now in use, introduced perhaps as long ago as last year or the year before, are entirely obsolete and ought to be iramoliately supplanted by those of the publishing house they represent. The course of education and the welfare of the pupils demand that the change be made as soon as possible. Fortunately the improved facilities for book-making enable ho agent to introduce the new book at a cost

that is really trifling compared with the advantages to be gained, and perhaps the intelligent member of the board orguileles3 trustee is slyly given to understand that a family Bible, a handsome center-table book, or a big box of stationery awaits the turn of his decision. The chances are the new books will be introduced. Parents will protest but finally submit to the inevitable, and the storm will subside till things are ripe for another change. GETTING BEADY TO TINKER THE TAEIFF. The Secretary of the Treasury has been summoned to Washington to consult with the President on the tariff question. Speaker Carlisle has been in consultation with the President on the same subject and other prominent "tariff reformers" have been slipping in and out of Washington. The object of all this advising and consulting is to agree on a position and line of action to be set forth in the President's annual mesrage and adopted by the Democrats in Congress. The paramount idea is to harmonize the Democratic party, and to do this a few Democratic officials propose to agree on a line of tariff tinkering which the President is to incorporate in his message and thus make it, as far as possible, an executive and party policy. It is a pity the business interests of the conntry, as well as those of the Democratic party, could not be represented at these consultations, but they will find expression elsewhere. There is something alarming in the idea of these interests, in all their vast proportions, extensive ramifications and delicate adjustments being thus submitted to the haphazard decision of a few Democratic partisans, none of whom have as yet given any evidence of ability to deal with such questions. Mr. Cleveland is the merest tyro in statesmanship. Secresary Fairchild, a New York lawyer who parts his hair in the middle, was thought to be in pretty deep water when he was appointed Assistant Secretary. Now he is summoned to Washington to help formulate a tariff -tinkering policy for the party in power. Mr. Carlisle, formerly a school-teacher, then a lawyer, is now a theorist and doctrinaire. Not only are they miserably equipped and poorly qualified to deal with the great questions of polical economy involved, but they approach the subject in a spirit of partisanism that augurs ill for the public welfare. The object of these conferences is not to devise such a policy as may advance the business interests of the country and promote the general prosperity, but to agree on something that will strengthen the administration and harmonize the Democratic party. The business interests of the country have nothing to hope for but much to fear from such conferences. They aim at a wholesale assault on our present revenue and economic system, the idea apparently being -that because it is the result of Republican legislation it must necessarily be wrong. Up to the present time Democratic statesmanship has risen no higher than violent opposition to everything Republican, and because the Republicans have pursued the policy of protection to American industries, the Democracy feel bound to oppose it. They seem to im

agine they will be doing God service to tear down whatever Republicans have built up, For the protective system has furnished the country and the world the grandest spectacle of national development and prosperity recorded in the history of any country or any age. The proof of the protective policy is in its results, and the Republican party can well afford to stand on its record. The Democracy propose, as far as possible, to reverse this record and undo its results. This is the main object of the conferences now going on at Washington. Score another victory for the street-railroad company against progress and public improvement. The postponement and readvertising of the Washington-street pavement is the direct result of their refusal to pay their share of the cost of the improvement. But for this the first contract would have stood, and the work would have gone on without interruption. The preliminaries were all disposed of, the contract was advertised and awarded, the contractors were responsible and ready to go on with the work, but Colonel J ohnson would nothave it. As usual, he "kicked," declared that the street-railroad company would not pay a cent of the cost assessed against them, and showed such an ugly disposition that the contractors were alarmed and threw up the contract. Now the matter is all at sea, and a very Important and desirable public improvement is indefinitely postponed through . the bulldozing tactics of the street railroad. Will there ever be an end of this tyranny T It was quite characteristic of the street railroad "octopus" that it should not discover the necessity of a track to Ilaughville until a competing company had been granted a right of way. Then it was suddenly discovered, not only that such a line was needed, but that the old company should build it along the very route granted to the new one. In order to bring the matter before the Council in a form seeming to favor the public interests, the "octopus" caused a petition to be, circulated asking that they be "required" to build a line to Ilaughville on Michigan street. The Council walked into the trap and passed a resolution granting the prayer of the petition. This is precisely what was desired by the old company, which has thus again demonstrated its ability to have things its own way. The Sentinel complains because the Secretary of State and Auditor of State, constituting a majority of the Board of Public Print ing, did not include it in the list of papers to publish a certain advertisement recently awarded. There is nothing in the law requiring or implying that the advertising shall be given to papers of different politics, or to Indianapolis papers alone. The commissioners simply exercised the discretion given them by the law. Perhaps, if the Sentinel had treated the State officers with anything like common decency, this would not have happened. It says: "In no instance since the law was enacted, say 1S75, without regard to the political complexion of the board, have all the papers selected to do the advertising been of one political party." To which wo reply, in

no instance since the law was enacted have

any set of State officers ever been vilified, blackguarded and maligned as have the pres ent incumbents by that paper. There is scarcely an epithet in the language, or a term of vilification familiar to the slums, that it has not applied to some or all of them, going far beyond the ordinary bounds of political controversy in its coarse and vulgar attacks. No merchant or business man thus singled out for personal abu3e would for a moment think of patronizing the paper that did it. Why should State officers do differently? They could not without humiliating themselves, and they are not the men to do that. Congressman William L. Scott, a leading Democrat and one of the wealthiest men in Pennsylvania, was formerly a protective tariff man. He is now in favor of free trade. In this connection, it is said, there is a little bit of inside history connected with his change of front. Scott, Seven-mule Barnum, Smith M. Weed and a number of other Democrats who are heavily engaged in the manufacture of iron confidently expected that when a Democratic administration came into power they would be able to secure the contract for building iron ships, fortifications and implements of warfare for the government. John Roach was broken down in this expectation, but even with Roach out of the way they found that the cost of making a new plant was so great that they could not possibly come in to compete with the old ship-builders. Scott immediately sold his furnaces, and has since been been training , with.-the tariff reformers. THE Ohio State Journal says: "The President will not stop at all in Indiana on his way West toward St. Louis. lie will miss a rare treat. The Hoosiers had arranged to show him their empty treasury." This is not quite accurate. The President's stay will be brief but it will be quite long enough for him to see all there is in the treasury. The Hendricks Club will escort him to the spot. . ; That the Indianapolis soldiers' monument competition has attracted the attention of artists is shown by the attention given to it in the art magazines. Tho Art Age takes issue with the American Architect in regard to its assertion that the competition is likely to be an improvement on its predecessors by the engagement of architectural experts to assist the regular committee in deciding upon the merits of plans presented. It also rebnkes the Architect for classing the men who enter into such competitions as "cattle," and declaring that they discredit their professional ability by so doing. The Are Age is of the opinion that the committee Is amply able to make the proper selection without dependence on professional architects. It says: "Dependence on sound common sense, a disposition to consider expert opinion, the exercise of such intelligent qualities as characterize a well-picked jury and the constant recollection that they are discharging a trust in which favoritism is worse than venal, will do more to enable the gentlemen of this committee to pro cure a monument which is a work of art than the dicta of any one or a dozen architects. Be sides the architect opinion is apt to be too much inclined to see the architecture side of such matters and look too little to manifold other considerations which enter into such a trust. Because one member of the jury is, by a special law. a civil engineer and another a builder, the jury is not to be discredited. On the contrary. we have cogent reasons for thinking that there.. are carpenters, builders and civil engineers who are more competent than many architects to act In such matters. Concerning inducements for entering a competition it believes committees as a rule ask too much. "Better would it be for them to solicit sketches only at first, and pay five distinguished architects one Hundred collars eacn lor such a sketch thus assuring other competitors that able men will enter; agreeing also to pay fifteen other comers a hundred dollars each, making a total of $2,000. Out of the twenty so selected, establish a further competion with exact con ditions, and agree to give the winner either an ample recompense or the commission for the monument. In any case, however, the committee bad better do its own judging and avoid the Birtholdi-Shaw system. And we have no doubts that, despite Boston apprehensiveness, this procedure will enlist the service of some architectural cattle excellently well bred." The death of the little African What-is-it so soon after its arrival in New York is explained by the later information that its first appearance in public was in a swallow-tail coat and fashion able accompaniments. This was a great mistake. The dress suit is a development of centuries of civilization, and to thrust a little wild man or an ourang-outang into one unawares is a proceeding necessarily fraught with peril. And yet, if the descriptions of his personal appear ance were accurate, little "It" was not far be hind the modern dude in the process of evolution. ' That humorous paper the Dakota Bell has been forced to suspend publication, not, as its editor explains, because the people did not appreciate it, but because all the prominent citizens of the Territory ordered copies for themselves and all their friends, and then steadfastly refused to pay for them. Mr. Carruth evidently failed to get an early grasp npon the great truth that prosperity and a continuous flow of humor follow only upon strict adherence to the rule requiring payment in advance. One Harvey Kenton, a wealthy bachelor farmer, living near Urbana, O., who was beaten out of $2,000, a few days ago, by the wellknown gold-brick swindle, has received a letter from the swindlers, now in New York, telling him they were sorry for his loss, but,, as he was rich, he could stand it. Many poorer men had stood the same game. They also urged fcim not to squeal, or people would call him "Gold Brick." Not content with robbing the man, the rascals made fan of him. The Commercial Travelers' League of America has been formed at Chicago. The object is to promote better acquaintance among that class. An impression prevails that commercial travelers are not very slow in getting acquainted when they want to. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A monument to Charles Reads was unveiled in St.' Paul's Cathedral, London, this month. It is a white marble medallion. European princesses are not likely to live in spinsterbood. There are now sixty-six of them ready to marry against 108 princes in the same position. The Rev. Joe A Munday. the Georgia revivalist, began life as a circus-rider, and was converted while following his profession in a little town in Georgia. Mrs. A. M. Hollow ay, of Buffalo, has no desire to vote, but she has just secured the contract for cleaning the streets of that city for five years, by a bid ot $447,000. Rev. Dr. Horatius Bonar, the well-known Scotch hymn writer, is to bo given a testimonial from Christians in all parts of the world on his seventy-ninth birthday, Nov. 30. Buffalo has a woman contractor. Her name is Mrs. A. M. Holloway, and shebas just secured the contract for cleaning the streets of that city for five years by a bid of $447,000. John L. Sullivan seems to be growing a little weary of trying to walk the straight and narrow path. He says: "You cannot by any pro

cess known to a living being make a monk or a bermit out of a prominent pugilist and expect him to remain always prayerful and isolated and abstemious.7' Mr. D. O. Mills, of New York, is having a $7,000 bronze door made for the tomb that he is building in the old Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Tarrytown. The tomb will cost $30,000. It is reported on good authority that Victoria Morosini-Schilling-Hulskamp is now in a convent in Italy, where she will remain for some years, "the world forgetting, and by the world forgot" Ms. Marion Crawford has bought the villa at Sant' Agnello di Sorrento, overlooking the bay of Naples, which he has ocenpied during

the past three summers, and called it the .villa Crawford. Camp-meeting John Allen was once chap lain of the Maine Legislature, and one day prayed that the legislators mieht be enabled to "condense their deliberations and stop when they had got through. Millard Fillmore Tompkins, grandson of Millard Fillmore, once President of the Doited States, lives in New York. He i3 proprietor of many retail grocery stores, and is reputed to be wortn at least fouo.uuu. Russell, Sage takes his keenest pleasure in ridiDg and the ownership of horses, but he never buys a horse outright. He follows the custom ol country Horsemen and of his own rustic yonth, and "swaps" or trades for every horse ha gets. President Cleveland writes all his letters and addresses with his own hand. He tried dic tating to a- stenographer some time ago, but found tbat it bothered him and that he could do his work much more satisfactorily in the good old-lasnioned way. Charles Dickens, jr, who is to lecture in this country, is about as unlike what the public would expect in a son of Boz as a parlor match ia unliice a comet. His round face and rather feeble cast of features are scarcelv redeemed by a large pair of spectacles, and in his delivery he uas neitner pnysicai nor dramatic power. A Mrs. Thirkield of Atlanta. Ga., has joined thfl Alvfttinn A l m tt avisf to wo ..inn n ra tATytt " -J u not -w satchel suspended by a "God is love" strap. The woman has deserted her husband, who is ill with typhoid fever, and three little children, one of whom is also ill. The oldest child is just six years oi age. in the same house lies Mrs. Thirfcield's sister at the point of death. The hospitable Americans at Newport have been much worried for fear they would not be able to pronounce correctly the name of the udk aoout wnom so many ot them are now fawning. Finally some energetic young woman asked liis Urace how to pronounce "Marlbo rough." Since that time those who wish to do the right thing by the degenerate son of degen erate ancestors speak of him as "Marbro." Mrs. Alfred G. Sheldon, of New Haven, has a Yale diploma dated 17G4. It was in that year issued to her great-grand father, Hezekiah Ripley, and bears the names of President Thomas Clap and the Rev. Messrs. Benjamin Lord, Thomas Kuggles, Jonathan Whitman and Moses Dickinson, members of the college corporation, There were twenty-eight members in the class or itDi, ana Mr. Kipiey, wno died in lsjo, was the last survivor. Robert Garrett is about thirty-seven years of age. He has no fondness for an executive" position and cannot bear to be chained to a desk. He is devoted to the pleasures of society and he likes to frequent drawing-rooms, clubs and ball rooms. He is extremely attentive to his dress and is always attired in the height of fashion. He would still be worth many millions if he bad never owned a dollar s worth of stock in the Baltimore & Ohio road. There are 400 Mormon bishops in Utah, 2,423 priests, 2,947 teachers and 6,854 deacons. Salt Lake City is divided into wards of eight or nine blocks each, and a bishop is put in charge of each ward. Under him there are two teachers. whose business it is to learn the employment and income of every resident of the ward and report the same to the bishop. Then the bishop collects the tenth of eaon man's income and turns it in to the church authorities. The same complete system exists all over the Territory. As the bishops get a good commission on their collections they make very zealous and persist ent collectors. Miss Lucy Salmon, the new professor of history at Vassar College, is a woman with a future before her. Her book, "The Appointing Power of the President," is the clearest mono graph that has appeared on that difficult subject. and is a noteworthy production for one of the non-political sex. Miss Salmon is a graduate of Michigan University and a fellow of Bryn Mawr College. It is curious, by the way, that seven of the ten fellowships open to comnetition in tbat woman's college Are held by graduates of the eo-edncational schools. Miss Salmon is a fine-looding blonde, with a clear, open face, physically and mentally healthy and steadfast looking. x An autograph letter from Coleridge, sold racenty in London, and addressed to Joseph Cottle, the publisher, in 1814, contains the following: "You have no conception of the dreadful hell of my' mind, and conscience, and body. You bid me pray, and I do," etc. Again, in May of the same year, he writes: "The temptation which I have constantly to fight up against is a fear that if annihilation and the possibility of heaven were offered to my choice, I should choose the former. This is perhaps in part a constitutional idiosyncrasy; for when a mere boy I wrote these lines: 'O what a wonder seems the fear of death, Seeing how gladly we all sink to sleep, Babes, children, youths and men, Night following night for three-score years and ten." A new book on Scotland tells the story of a Mr. Durham and his servant, who gave warning because he could not bear to beointed at as "the man who had the leein' maister." His rebuke was taken in good part, and he was instructed to give bis master a nudge when he thought a story a little-exaggerated. The story proceeds: "Net long afterward Mr. Durham was entertaining at dinner a party of friends, when ha proceeded to describe some foxes he had seen abroad, with tails twelve feet long. Peter gave his master a nudee, when Mr. Durham remarked to his guests: 'No, I am wrong. Not twelve; they were six feet long.' Peter administered a second nudge. Ah, well, on reflecting,' said Mr. Durham, 'I believe the animals' tails were no beyond three feet long.' Peter yet nudged, when Mr. Durham turned sharply round, and, addressing his attendant, said gravely, Peter, if I reduce the tail further the story's gone.'" The Baltimore American tells the following remarkable story, which comes from one of the seaside watering resorts. It is reportad that a younglady of excellent family has developed a species of insanity of a novel character. She has given lately a great deal of her time and attention to amateur photography and had become possessed with the insane idea that she could produce the effects of photography on everything. The other morning she pat a handsome dress in front of the camera, and placed herself in pura natarabilis behind it She then started out, leaving her room to take a walk, fully possessed with the idea that she had photographed the dress on her own charging person. Unfortunately, however, the first person in the hall sbe met was one of the bell boys, who was so thoroughly frightened that he gave a scream, and darted down the stairs. Assistance was soon called, when the young lady was taken back to to her room and dressed, but the photographic apparatus was thrown out of the back window of the hotel. COMMENT AND OPINION. It would not be surprising if Governor Wil son s Doia aerense oi tne reoemon snonia oring hi into prominence for the vice-presidency. The tone of the Democratic organs sounds that way now. Philadelphia Inquirer. The G. A. It. fellows are foolish to trouble themselves about the Democratic President's picture. If they don t like it (hey can wait until the next election and then present him with their own negatives. That is the peaceable, sensible way of going about American political business. Louisville Courier-Journal. "What shall we do with our daughters?" asks a writer in the North American Review. Watch over them for fifteen years, educate them at great cost, dress them at an enormous expense, and then prepare to. see them marry the first pauper idiot who has money enoueh to buy a license, and not enough to find a preacher. -Louisville Commercial. From time to time the world is surprised by a demonstration of goodness in an unexpected quarter. Just now, for example, by the efforts of the Chicago Board of Trade to crush out the bucket-shops. The bucket-shops are gambling places, where men gamble on the price of grains and stocks. Aiany persons are mined by this gambling and the Chicago Board of Trade is shocked at the extent of the evil. Why, when a member of the Chicago Board of Trade is running a corntr in wheat or pork, or when members of the New Xork Stock Exchange are break

ing down or running up stocks, these bucket-" shops receive the instant quotations and gamble on them. Thus the men who gamble in the bucket-shops lose their money by mere gambling, when they might better lose it on 'Change through the manipulations of the operators. Milwaukee Sentinel. There has hardly been such an anomaly in history &a that of the belated ghost of another age looming up in the light of a new generation and pretending to give advice on questions of national importance. If there were a law imposing the death oehalty upon patrid reminiscences and fools, Jeff Davis would not be long for this world. Chicago MaiL To put this man (Lamar into the Supreme Court, where he may be called upon to decide as to the validity of telephone patents, and also to pass upon acts of repudiation by Virginia and other States, would be a scandal as disgraceful as any that have stained our history. Mr. Garland is his friend, and was counsel for Virginia repudiators and for telephone jobbers. But for that very reason Mr. Lamar is an unfit man to make a Justice of the Supreme Court New York Tribune. If the Democrats attempt to coerce the G. A. R. veterans into marching under Cleveland's banner at the St Louis parade they will probably wish they hadn't The affair would probably end as did that at Wheeling, where the Democrats tried to run the soldiers' reunion in the interest of the Democratic party. The G. A. R. is not going to St. Louis on any political mission whatever, and it will not be coereed nor entrapped into any Democratic scheme. If the Democratic managers in St. Louis carry out their plans proposed they are a lot of big fools. Detroit Tribune. The Brooklyn Union is impatient with Mr. Robert T. Lincoln because the latter disclaims the desire to be President This is a novel ground of complaint toward a . man who has been a politician, indeed. The novelty of such a position ought. to bring a sensation of pleasure to those who have seen 60 many people willing to sacrifice principle and manhood to gain the presidency. But, if it will afford any comfort to the Union, we are inclined to call its attention to the fact that Mr. Lincoln's objections to holding the office are easily to be overcome, even on his own showing. Boston Herald.

FILING UP DEBT. Record of the Democratic Party In Indiana Results in Forty Conn ties. Indiana Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The financial history of Indiana abundantly proves that the Democratic party is a debt-making party. They have ever been ready to vote vast sums of money for one thing and another without ever providing any way of furnishing the money. They seem to have a wonderful faith in luck providing some way of eventually discharging the debts they create. They evidently believe that a publio debt is a publio blessing. lor, as far as 1 can find in tne history of the State, they have never discharged any of the debts they were so free to contract, and this history is also found in their administra tions of counties aad cities. There is hardly a Democratic county in the State that is not heavily burdened with debt, and in too many instances the people have nothing to show for the burden or debt they are carrying. I-will admit that the Republicans in some counties have been exceedingly liberal in contracting debts, but as a rule they have at tbe same time made some preparations for the payment of the obligations. While they have been liberal, they have fallen far behind their Democratic opponents, and their administration of both State and municipal affairs stands ont in strong contrust to the reckless and extravagant manage ment of the Democrats. Below is a list of forty counties, twenty of them Republican and twenty Democratic, with the assessed valuation of property in each, and the amount of the county indebtedness. It will be seen that the twenty Renublican counties have $27,293,548 more of taxable property than the Democratic counties, while their debt is $434,027 less. The average valuation of the Republican counties is $10,007,586, and the average debt is only $57,316. In the Democratic counties the average valuation is only $8,702,90!), while the average debt is $84,167. I have not picked these counties out in such a manner as to make the worst showing possible for the Democrats, and the best for tbe Republicans, but, on the other band, I have taken the Republican couuties showing tne Heaviest lnoeoiedness, wnne tnere are a number of Democratic counties having a larger indebtedness than some of those I have put in the list. The discrimination is really against the Kepublicans. Mho table proves what was said in the beginning, that the Democracy is a debt creating party. It will be well for the Deonle to etudv the table. It will heln them to a rational understanding of the difference between the financial management of the two parties. In some things Indiana Democracy is an institution different from any found in other parts of the Union, but in its ability to squander money it does not stand on a pinnacle by itself. In tbat regard what Democracy is in Indiana it is in all the other States. But here is the table; let the people make their own deductions: REPUBLICAN. Names. Valuation. Debt. Benton $t?,63t.233 S54.194 Delaware 10,151.795 13,000 Favette 7,052,3-04 3(5,916 Grant 9,492,065 137,000 Green 5,921.223 52.000 Hamilton 10.050.685 97.7 lO Hendricks l'096.fG4 . 16.300 Henry 13.80S.775 32.000 Jasper 3,342,284 13,000 Jay 6,993,580 91,550 Jennings 3,777.950 12,669 Kosciusko 11.04S.166 110.OOO Lawrence 6,321,050 08.248 Monroe 6,044,557 92.735 Morgan 7,975.080 45,000 Steuben 3.832.990 7.000 Tippecanoe 21.517,320 175,000 Vanderburg 23,572,225 50,000 Vermillion 6,008,815 10.000 Wayne.. 25.107,917 32,000 Total $201,351,733 1,146,321 DEMOCRATIC. Names. Valuation. $4,540. 105 23,637.010 1O.854.01O 2.737,235 9,224,019 6,407.216 9.471.465 8.994.570 9,608,070 8,885,100 4.468,015 11,193,230 10,853,715 10,827,910 8.651.105 2.394,925 8,091,500 2,923,080 5,242.020 5,046,960 Debt. $55,387 300.00O 100,000 52,800 87.-748 62,030 104,000 40.000 . 35,000 44,000 35,162 75,000 104,500 101.530 150,000 92,941 40,000 55,329 92,000 55,931 Adams. ...... .... Allen Bartholomew. .... Blackford.. ...... Clark Clay Clinton.......... Dearborn... ...... Floyd. Hancock.... . .... Harrison. ........ Johnson ..... Knox............ Madison. ........ Miami... Prry. P'.sey Pulaski frencer . ......... Warrick... Total $174,058,190 $1,683,358 A BEE IN HIS BONNET General Clin too B. Fisite Said to Have Two Presidental Irons in the Fire. Trenton fN. J.) Special. General Clinton B. Fisk means business. He has considerable money, and his wife has considerable more. Hence when tbe General announces, as he has done quietly to his friends, that he proposes capturing the Prohibition can didacy for the presidency and making it warm for the Republicans next year, he has the cash to carry on the campaign. General Fisk and his friends are very bitter toward the Republican party, but especially toward the Blaine element James G. Blaine is their especial object of hatred, ana tney wiu aevote most of their energies to knocking the Maine statesman out if he should head the Republican ticket again next year. The General has a great many friends all over the country and is especially popular with the iuetnoaists, as ne ronnaea and partially sup ports tne iamous i:isk university at Nashville. Tenn. It did not take long to get the boom in working order. In Chicago, General Fisk has a very firm friend in the person of Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the Y omen's Christian Temperance Union of America. She was notified and her pen and voice have since been extolling tho praises of the founder of the Fi6k University. The Fisk boom spread so fast that John Peter St John, also a General, began to grow uneasy. He was calculating on a renomination next sum mer. As the weeks have gone by. the Fisk boom has grown so rapidly that St John has almost concluded he might as well gracefully retire. He cannot defeat Fisk. The only problem now presented is whether Fisk is in earnest, or only wants to frighten the Republicans and compel them to recognize his strength and come to terms with him. It is said the recognition General Fisk wants is the prom ise of nomination for Vice-president on the liepublican ticket If he gets that he is perfectly willing to appear on tne same banners and in tbe same songs with Blaine. Mail-Service Department. Detroit, Sept 6. The thirteenth annual convention of the United States Railway Mailservice Mutual Benefit Association began at 10 o'clock this morning, and will continue through to morrow and Thursday. On account ot illness. President M. A. Butricks, of New Haven. Conn., is unable to be present The attendance to-day is about 120, and comes from every part of the country. General Superintendent Nash will be unable to come. The convention is held under the auspices of the Ninth division. Today's business was of a routine character, Vicepresident Cbamplin presiding.

UISDER- GROUND WORKERS

Annual Convention of the National Federated Association of Miners. Conservative Spirit of the Men Who Control The Organization- Failure of Efforts to Merge It with Miners' K. of L. Assembly. The forty delegates, whose numbers are to be increased by arriyals from Pennsylvania and West Virginia to-day, composing yesterday tho convention of the Federated Association of Miners and Mine-laborers, are a substantial body of men. Very few of them are under thirty years of age, and many of them have passed their prime, but they look as if they were yet good for many years of work. They appear like men who own their homes, which, by their presence, is suggestive of neat and loving cottages, well-kept surroundings, with no want of simple ornaments in flowers and trees. The federated minors claim to be the more conservative of their class, who discountenance strikes' and believe that an injury to operators is an injury to them. In their proceedings .nothing is heard of fierce denunciation of capital, or that I r.V.AV Af a hnincr rnhhnA nt thA frnita nf thnii- tn!l ' What they do is done after careful and intelligent deliberation. Like everybody else, , they want their labor to yield the most it can, but it j would be a herculean task to induce such men ' to run the hazard of a strike. That word is , very rarely mentioned, but it ia not to be under- ! stood that they would avoid one if the differences between them and the operators' should assume .an extremely aggravated form. To prevent ' such a thing is one of tbe purposes of the feder- . Atinn. Tta itnnnntinn drtAi net mtt VAtrlv to rehearse a long list of grievances, but to discuss and act upon questions that may benefit miners and operators alike. There is another ' organization of miners that works nnder the Knights of Labor system. It is part of that order, and conssquently whatever it accomplishes is through secret - action. The fednra- ' tion's convention is open to any one, and its proceedings are freely given to the public, for it looks more to the mutual interests of miners : and operators. On this account there has been a little friction between the K. of I. miners and the federation, although many of the latter nri ' members of the order, but not of the miner' organization under it. Such mn as John 31Bride, Christopher Evans and George Harriso". of Ohio, and Daniel McLaughlin, of Illinois, are leading spirits in the more liberal aasncisrion, while W. H. Bailey, of Ohio, a member of th K. of L national executive board, is tl-.n controlling spirit of the secret organization. H wants the miners of the United States brought under the wing of the K. of L., but the federated miners are not disposed to destroy the identity of their organization by taking any snch step. That, however, is not a live issue, and the federation stands alone on its platform of conservatism. It is claimed that its influence his increased yearly since tbe organization was accomplished here, two years ago. In the intervals of the conventions the executive board controls affairs, and its meetings are held several times during the twelve months, often with the operators, either in this city or in Chicago. Tbe convention meots this year in Meridian Hall. Its time yesterday was used altogether in preparing for the business of to-day and tomorrow. Mr. McBride. the president, opened - the prodeedings with a short address, in review ing the past work or the federation and what it would have to do in the future. He congratulated the members npon the realization of !' r expectations in maintaining a satisfactory i-U-tionshio with the operators. He was follow ri in a short speech by Mr. McLaughlin, who hr.m the appearance of an old farmer whom the world has given, if net wealth, at least a competence for years and years of toil. Like the president, Chris Evans and George Harrison, he talks as an instructor who has been taught bv experience what theories and grievances are. To them mining means simply that they have the labor and the operators the capital, therefore it is best for both to consider matters with, sound sense. After the speeches the secretary of the executive board, Mr. Evans, read his report of at he doings during the year. It was a lengthy document, and referred to the fact that the purposes of tbe federation bad been accomplished without serious differences with the employers. It was a successful organization, to which new strength was added each year. A matter of importance that had been considered was the proposition to consolidate the federation and District Assembly 31, K of L, the official titla of tbe other organization of miners. It came from the latter, to which the federation executive board sent a reply consenting to the conference. The time was then fixed by D. A. 31 for a conference at Cincinnati early in the year, and to this the federation assented, bnt the correspondence tbat followed on the part of D. A. 31 led to withdrawing this date. The D. A. executive board met in Cincinnati and again proposed a conference on June 23. but to this the federation's board would net consent, as two months had elapsed from the date fixed for the first con-' forence and one month had gobe by since the advance of 5 cents secured by the federation had gone into effect The executive board of the latter adopted a resolution refusing to consider any further propositions to that end. The report stated that the executive board's meeting with the operators in June was satisfactory in relation to the 5 cents advance, which is to continue until November, when another advance of 5 cents is to go into effect and last until the May following, provided the places working under schedule rates are brought up to the standard price for mining. Some of these places are still working under the schedulo, but the board is satisfied that the operators will bring them np to thesshedule before November, when they can get the ad van- . taee of the additional 5 cent raise. The federation is part of the American Federation of , Labor, an organization, the report stated, that has now 500.000 members, 37,000 of whom have ; come in since June. Committees on resolutions, order of business, ; i i Jr.: a , ,ways ana means ana auuniDtr were appomteu. That on resolution!? consists of David McLaughlin, who is its chairman, George Harrison. James Donavin, James Short and Robert Bailo-. The chairmen of the other committees are Robert Fisher on organization and order of busim--, John Young on ways and means, and D. A. Thomas on auditing books. The convention, whose members then present were mostly from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, adjourned until 0 o'cloek this morning. A Uunuiii'iarKin of Base Ball. Sprinefield'KeruMiran. We believe the professional base-ball fever Is a miserable debasement of yonth. The city of Boston has gone crazy over the playing of a lot of hired mercenaries, thirty or forty years of age, nine of whom have lately been fined $25 each by their employers for an incapacitating usepf spirits. Very respectable people have crowded the spectators' seats. It is of no particular valne to the boys. In fact, tho boys cannot get near the play-ground, and the games are largely attended by the worst elements in the city, as well as by some of the best The whole t.a.hu th vont.h that a ftp at and indo lent profession has been built up on what should be a maniy sport. - Wanted the Earth. Philadelphia Times. , . v'nnno Air Harrtt s nosition is not a narticnlarly happy one, but it is not a particularly new one, either. Wanting the entire earth, he dropped that portion which he securely held, and when he returned to pick it up again it wasn't there. History is lull ot lncicents oi tne same Kino. . And They Got There. Atlanta Constitution, Pept. 3. Twenty-three years ago yesterday, a route agent named W. T. Sherman piloted the biggest party of excursionists into Atlanta that ever visited Georgia. Efforts were made to entertain the party here, but they decided to extend their trip to Savannah. IVnlcoma Uireins! Chtcasro Times. T Tho Democrats oi rneioy coumv, iuunns, ave invited Eugene Iliggins to visit Shelbyill September 17. Great reforms move slowly iu a section oi idqiu " " .. wear out and washbasins have been known to last fifty years. . ,It Can't llm Helped. Philadelphia Keoor.l. A xsew York DanK presiueui. ihbi iters fa nn mr trt nrAvent tne ciera vl hut nana wno handles the cash from stealing it. If this be true the people may as well oegm to return to the stocking and the mattress as safer places of deposit . The Place for XI im. Philadelphia Tress. , n. . . - , , . Th newtmoer portraits of Chief Colorowlead Irresistibly to the belief that the wily old Ute will never reach bis reai neia oi useiuiness nniu he is petrified and set up in front of a cigar store.